will he switch projects?

will he switch projects?

Actually you read too much into that. I'm the maintainer (sort of) of the old Cyrix X drivers and help VIA in merging their stuff. I don't plan to be doing that end of September either.
I may have to fix one or two bits during term breaks just because I'm possibly the only person on the planet with some of the old Cyrix docs except NatSe^W AMD 8)

I'd also take issue with the other posters comment about user space. I started as a games programmer, I've done GUI stuff too. The kernel demands a certain set of skills and ability to think about hardware, but you don't have to think about extremely large systems, complex API's and other things that are required of other classes of programmer.

Far too many kernel types don't appreciate how hard good GUI work is, nor why tools like python are so good for GUI work. Anyone who thinks the kernel is somehow magically harder should go read Pango - and thats "just a library that renders characters" right....